This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

Adding another potential wrinkle to the industry’s work with China is the Biosecure Act, a piece of China-targeting national ...

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From advancements in male birth control to the science of supplements, Scientific American highlights some of the most ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

Toes aside, they are both hoofed plant eaters, which comes in handy from an animal husbandry perspective. Sheep will happily ...